Don't forget Jonathan Lane's blog today, "Is CARLOS PEDRAZA a liar or just a lousy journalist? (editorial)," in which he says I keep changing the amount of money Axanar raised (citing various AxaMonitor articles that cite figures ranging from $1.1 million to "nearly $2 million," and that I lied about being employed by The Associated Press. Naturally, he gets that all wrong. Here's my reply:
« Jonathan, I'm the first to admit the differing numbers are confusing but none is inaccurate given the different revenue streams Axanar had, some of which have never been documented by Alec Peters.
« The $1.4 million you describe, which comes from the financial expert hired by Axanar to testify in the copyright infringement case, describes the total donations as coming from crowdfunding and donor store sales.
« In some articles I use the figure directly attributable to crowdfunding. In others I have used the Tregillis figure; both are correct as far as they go.
« As for the $1.7 million, I didn't make that up. It's what Axanar's total paid expenses came to, and it comes directly from Alec Peters himself in the Donor Memo [see image below] he released earlier this year. He himself states the $300,000 difference came from additional donations (including his own undocumented contribution) NOT included in the $1.4m figure.
« As for my employment with The Associated Press, your scurrilous accusation that I've lied to employers for three decades about working there, and that I only ever wrote one article and it was as a freelance writer is patently false. You base this allegation on a Google search that turned up only one article? You realize, don't you, that in the years I spent working at the AP there was no public internet. The AP itself offers no public archive of news stories from that era.
« If you want to spend the money, trying using the Lexis-Nexis database and you'll find lots more to demonstrate that you're the one perpetrating falsehoods. »
« Jonathan, I'm the first to admit the differing numbers are confusing but none is inaccurate given the different revenue streams Axanar had, some of which have never been documented by Alec Peters.
« The $1.4 million you describe, which comes from the financial expert hired by Axanar to testify in the copyright infringement case, describes the total donations as coming from crowdfunding and donor store sales.
« In some articles I use the figure directly attributable to crowdfunding. In others I have used the Tregillis figure; both are correct as far as they go.
« As for the $1.7 million, I didn't make that up. It's what Axanar's total paid expenses came to, and it comes directly from Alec Peters himself in the Donor Memo [see image below] he released earlier this year. He himself states the $300,000 difference came from additional donations (including his own undocumented contribution) NOT included in the $1.4m figure.
« As for my employment with The Associated Press, your scurrilous accusation that I've lied to employers for three decades about working there, and that I only ever wrote one article and it was as a freelance writer is patently false. You base this allegation on a Google search that turned up only one article? You realize, don't you, that in the years I spent working at the AP there was no public internet. The AP itself offers no public archive of news stories from that era.
« If you want to spend the money, trying using the Lexis-Nexis database and you'll find lots more to demonstrate that you're the one perpetrating falsehoods. »
When did 'moderator' happen? 
Was listening to #11 today ('We are Eleven', Sem. Shenanigans 
. Really liked, and liked reading between the lines, 'Caveat Donor') Seriously, woman, do you ever sleep? My gawds, you're like the Energizer Bunny.
) from Jan 2016 to July 2017.
